Strongerthanyou:
It's definitely a sign of submission in my eyes... Don't see how a round soft tire of around your waist can be perceived as powerful

Munchies:
It really depends. For some, being big means being powerful. They get to literally throw their weight around. Have you ever heard of squashing? It's a kink where someone bigger than you crushes you under their weight. You see it more on Dimensions than on FF.

Then you have dominant feedees with submissive feeders. The feeders wait on the feedee hand and foot while the feedee indulges as much as they want.

Hurgon:
Definitely.

It was often a sign of wealth too - access to more and better food, no need to do the physical labour, etc. I don't know whether this is still the case in some cultures and parts of the world. A lot of portraits from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries draw attention to the swell and straining buttons around the subject's paunch.

Tentacles:
I do wonder if some women see their hubbies having big paunch as complimentary to their cooking.

Munchies:
As a woman living in the American South, I can vouch for that being a thing.

Tentacles:
See in some ways it's weirder when it's people outside our fetish who act like this.

Strongerthanyou:
It's definitely a sign of submission in my eyes... Don't see how a round soft tire of around your waist can be perceived as powerful

Munchies:
It really depends. For some, being big means being powerful. They get to literally throw their weight around. Have you ever heard of squashing? It's a kink where someone bigger than you crushes you under their weight. You see it more on Dimensions than on FF.

Then you have dominant feedees with submissive feeders. The feeders wait on the feedee hand and foot while the feedee indulges as much as they want.

Hurgon:
Definitely.

It was often a sign of wealth too - access to more and better food, no need to do the physical labour, etc. I don't know whether this is still the case in some cultures and parts of the world. A lot of portraits from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries draw attention to the swell and straining buttons around the subject's paunch.

Tentacles:
I do wonder if some women see their hubbies having big paunch as complimentary to their cooking.

Wolffeeder:
Like the Bodi tribe in Ethiopia.

www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/food-travel/in-this-ethiopian-tribe-man-with-biggest-pot-belly-is-champion/r5tjp98.amp

Tentacles:
I have heard of traditions of fattening women before but not men. Wonder how that developed.